Auteur: Mabboux, Carole
Titre: Can it Ever be Wise to Kill the Tyrant? Insights from Cicero in the Debate on Rightful Government during the Middle Ages (Especially in the 13th–14th Centuries)
Revue/Collection: In : Pieper, Christoph & Velden, Bram van der ed.), Reading Cicero’s Final Years Receptions of the Post-Caesarian Works up to the Sixteenth Century, Boston Berlin, De Gruyter, 2020, 300 p.
Annèe edition: 2020
Pages: 137-154
Mots-clès: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy
Description: Carole Mabboux shows with the help of examples of late medieval debates about tyranny, Cicero’s impact on political theory formation remained marginal. When discussing the role of Julius Caesar, medieval authors did refer to Cicero as his contemporary, but the notorious (and well-known) Ciceronian texts about Caesar’s tyrannical behaviour, especially passages from De officiis, were hardly quoted, let alone used for their evaluation. And even if authors like Thomas Aquinas and Brunetto Latini referred to them, their main focus remained on Cicero the moral authority, while his role as political actor was only fully rediscovered and re-evaluated in the second half of the fourteenth century. [Pieper and Velden 2020, xi]
Oeuvres:
Liens: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110716313-010/pdf
Sigle auteur: Mabboux 2020
Titre: Can it Ever be Wise to Kill the Tyrant? Insights from Cicero in the Debate on Rightful Government during the Middle Ages (Especially in the 13th–14th Centuries)
Revue/Collection: In : Pieper, Christoph & Velden, Bram van der ed.), Reading Cicero’s Final Years Receptions of the Post-Caesarian Works up to the Sixteenth Century, Boston Berlin, De Gruyter, 2020, 300 p.
Annèe edition: 2020
Pages: 137-154
Mots-clès: Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy
Description: Carole Mabboux shows with the help of examples of late medieval debates about tyranny, Cicero’s impact on political theory formation remained marginal. When discussing the role of Julius Caesar, medieval authors did refer to Cicero as his contemporary, but the notorious (and well-known) Ciceronian texts about Caesar’s tyrannical behaviour, especially passages from De officiis, were hardly quoted, let alone used for their evaluation. And even if authors like Thomas Aquinas and Brunetto Latini referred to them, their main focus remained on Cicero the moral authority, while his role as political actor was only fully rediscovered and re-evaluated in the second half of the fourteenth century. [Pieper and Velden 2020, xi]
Oeuvres:
Liens: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110716313-010/pdf
Sigle auteur: Mabboux 2020
